Old-time schools and school-books . Whale Worcesters Elements of Geography, 1829. Later Geographies 253 St. Louis, the capital of the Territory of Louisiana,contains about 200 houses and is well fortified. The people of Norway are justly famed for honesty andindustry, and retain their strength so long, that a Nor-wegian is not supposed incapable of labour, till he is up-wards of 100 years old. The inhabitants in some of theinterior parts it is said live till weary of Worcesters Elements of Geography, 1 829. In all the northern parts of Russia the winter col
Old-time schools and school-books . Whale Worcesters Elements of Geography, 1829. Later Geographies 253 St. Louis, the capital of the Territory of Louisiana,contains about 200 houses and is well fortified. The people of Norway are justly famed for honesty andindustry, and retain their strength so long, that a Nor-wegian is not supposed incapable of labour, till he is up-wards of 100 years old. The inhabitants in some of theinterior parts it is said live till weary of Worcesters Elements of Geography, 1 829. In all the northern parts of Russia the winter cold isvery terrible. Birds in the act of flying have sometimesbeen known to drop down dead from the atmosphere inconsequence of it; drivers of carriages are frequentlyfrozen to death upon their seats without being able tochange their position. At Petersburg, only two monthsin the year are entirely free from snow. The Condor is undoubted the largest bird that per-vades the air. When it alights on the ground, or risesfrom it, the noise it makes with its wings is such as to 2A 354 Old-time Schools and School-books terrify and almost to deafen any one who happens to benear the place. Among the animals peculiar to South America, themost extraordinary is the Sloth, or as it was called bythe way of derision, the swift Petre. It is about the sizeof an ordinary monkey, but of a most wretched appear-ance. It never stirs unless impelled by hunger; it is saidto be several minutes in moving on
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